留神聽
這一支就是核心畫面本身:停下來、把耳朵交出去。
verb · C2
To listen carefully to something. This is an old use of the verb, kept alive in poems, hymns and old stories, and it often comes with 'to': to hark to a sound.
留神聽
One way to hold hark is as a hand going up and a head turning: everything stops, and the ear is pointed at a sound. It is not the ear simply receiving noise, which is hear. It is a person choosing to give a sound their whole attention, and the word is old enough that using it now colours the whole sentence with the sound of an older book.
Recorded as Middle English herken, from a form built on the root of hear plus a -k ending; so the word has carried the idea of listening from the start.
它在中古英文寫作 herken,來自 hear(聽)的字根再加上一個 -k 字尾。也就是說,它從一開始就掛在「聽」這件事上,後來的用法都沒有離開這個中心。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract), entry 'hark', source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:425528571:9029
Two branches
留神聽
這一支就是核心畫面本身:停下來、把耳朵交出去。
verb · C2
To listen carefully to something. This is an old use of the verb, kept alive in poems, hymns and old stories, and it often comes with 'to': to hark to a sound.
留神聽
你聽聽他!(嘲弄)
同樣是「叫人去聽」,但真正要對方注意的不是聲音,而是那句話有多好笑。
verb · C2
Said when you think someone is talking nonsense, or is acting as if they were more important or more skilled than they really are. It is old-fashioned spoken British English.
你聽聽他!